{"id":42868,"date":"2023-06-11T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=42868"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:24:38","slug":"the-state-is-the-health-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/11\/the-state-is-the-health-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Is the Health of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1918, Randolph Bourne made the case that \u201cwar is the heath of the state,\u201d meaning that in a time of war, governments are able to use the existence of an external enemy to justify power grabs the population would not go along with in a time of peace.<\/p>\n<p>The inverse is also true. The state is the health of war.<\/p>\n<p>Wars are much more likely to occur when one group has a monopoly right to print money, issue taxes, compel schooling, conscript citizens into the military, and has a legal double standard which allows mass murder to go unpunished under the guise of &#8220;foreign policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7HG2ljcgTk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone\">Don&#8217;t Tread on Anyone podcast<\/a> and editor of <\/em>The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1918, Randolph Bourne made the case that \u201cwar is the heath of the state,\u201d meaning that in a time of war, governments are able to use the existence of an external enemy to justify power grabs the population would not go along with in a time of peace. The inverse is also true. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42871,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions\/42871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}